Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-11-11

TO waste, 1alllnB on the grounu anu
rotting. This is one Of the disadvan-
tages from not having the orchard
fenced off for a pasturage for pigs.
They will eat this fallen fruit, and
most of it is worth more to be fed
thus with no expense than to he taken
away and sold. Neither for cider nor
for drying can prices be got that will
much more than pay the labor OF
picking up. II the farmer has himself
dry house he can make his fallen
fruit pay. II not. he had better turn
in his hogs and let them give him
what profit they can from it. Winter
apples are not included in this. These
will generally keep until cold weather,
when there is a better demand for them,
but the late Summer and early Fall APP
Piles are always difficult to dispose of
probably,
GREEN TOMATOES FOR PICKLES.
The tomato crop has the peculiarly
of never being entirely unstable. but
varying greatly in the kind of fruit re-
CURED. Early IN the season well-ripen-
ed tomatoes only are in demand; but
Just at the close. after a hard frost.
there often comes sudden call for
green tomatoes at better prices than
have before been paid for ripened fruit.
These late tomatoes are used for
picking and are preferred green. If
the housewife has time and convenient
ces, she can make further advance in
profits by picking green tomatoes, GU
cumbers. cabbage and caulilower, and
selling the manufactured product dur
ing the Winter This is done by city
vance above cost. Farmers often COM
plain that their bus ness rs producers
of raw material is not so profitable as
that of the dealer and manufactures.
In making pickles of various kinds
there is a chance to combine the profits
both of the producer and manufacturer.
How many farmers will avail them
selves of such an opportunity to get
out of old ruts? If they do not try
something of this kind to better their
condition, how can they expect that new
and more profitable business will come
TO them?
SWEET APPLES FOR WINTER USE.
The American habit Of eating fruit
chiefly in pie has made acidi,y almost
an essential quality of apples to make
them salabe. Pie is not healthful food
fer persons with weak digestion. and
there is growing liking for fruit in
other forms. Baked apples are all the
better for beng sweet, and lack ne
only the lard-havored crust of the fully
developed PIE, they are far more diges-
table, and to most persons quite as pal
table. Sweet apples are not largely
grown; but the supply is proportion
ately better than the demand and they
can usually be bought at less per bar
rel than Baldwins. Greetings or North.
ern Sres. The Tallman Sweet is the
kind most grown, but except for spec
ial uses it is not the best. 1t cooks
tough. and for doing up with boiled
cider as preserve is just the thing, be.
cause the quarters retain their form
and do not fall to pieces. But this
toughness for baking apple is not
quite so agreeable. The PoInd Sweet
bakes tender and sweeter than the
Tallman Swoeting. But it is not easy
TO keep the pound Sweet past January
or February, except in cold storage.
The Green sweet VIII keep somewhat
later. 1t is an eXcelant cooker and
very prolific, as is also the Pound Sweet
ing We need some new varieties Of
sweet apples that viii bake theder and
and keep until April or May, with fair
care. Probably when there is sufficient
demand for bookkeeping sweet apples
such varieties Will be developed Or
there may be such now. little known
because nobody cares for them. -Anei-
can CultirdtOr.